Publishing news

Elsevier has acquired the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Elsevier has announced that The Hive, its incubator project for biotech and pharmaceutical start-up firms, is now open for nominations and applications

Caitlin Cornish, former publishing director for Palgrave Macmillan, has joined Emerald as head of books publishing

Emerald Group Publishing has announced a partnership with the publishing software company ReadCube

Kudos has signed a deal with its first Chinese customer, as it continues to expand its client base

Springer Nature is to extend its year-long nature.com content-sharing trial to enable its research articles to be freely shared with all researchers and the wider public via its authors, subscribers and global media partners

A world-renowned Cambridge mathematician and a team of colleagues say they are taking on for-profit academic journal publishers with the launch of Discrete Analysis, an open access journal

Peerage of Science and Pensoft have agreed to expand their collaboration. Pensoft, an independent academic publishing company founded in 1994 that now features a portfolio of 16 scientific journals, has been one of the early adopters of the peer review service

Kudos, a specialist in maximising the reach and impact of research publications, has completed an integration with Europe PMC